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February 19, 2019: Important Twitter changes to the Buffer API

To Our Valued Buffer Partners:

In order to comply with the updated 2019 Twitter Developer Policy, we are making a few changes to Twitter content that we provide to our partners and third parties.

We are only able to provide, distribute, and allow download of Tweet IDs, Direct Message IDs, and/or User IDs. Any additional Twitter content beyond these IDs will be redacted from the Buffer API effective February 19, 2019.

The following endpoints will be affected:

/profiles and /profile/:id will no longer return the parameters for all Twitter profiles:

service_username

formatted_username

avatar

avatar_https

cover_photo

statistics

/updates/:id and /profiles/:id/updates/sent will not longer return the parameters:

text

text_formatted

media

extra_media

service_link

statistics

retweet

To comply with Twitter’s Developer Policy, if you would like to retrieve any of the redacted information you can communicate directly with the Twitter API utilizing the following IDs in your requests:

profiles, /profile/:id will return the service parameter set to "twitter" and the service_id parameter which corresponds to a Twitter user_id.